BEIRUT, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Israeli planes hit a Syrian army camp under construction in eastern Syria early on Monday without casualties, said a military media unit run by Lebanon's Hezbollah, a Syrian government ally. War monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights had earlier reported that ...
Israel's Iron Dome defence system is designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells (AFP Photo/JALAA MAREY)/ Jerusalem (AFP) - Israel said Monday several rockets were fired at its territory from Syria by an Iranian-backed force in what would be a rare ...
Syrian government forces ride on a tank as it drives down a street in the Syrian border town of Albu Kamal (AFP Photo/STRINGER)/ Beirut (AFP) - Air strikes hit positions of pro-Iranian forces and allied militias in eastern Syria overnight, killing 18 fighters, a war monitor said Monday. It was ...
Hezbollah’s leader said on Tuesday his Iran-backed movement had shot down an Israeli drone in Lebanon for the first time to strengthen deterrence against attack by arch-foe Israel./ Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah gestures as he addresses his supporters via a screen during the ...
Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah gestures as he addresses his supporters via a screen during the religious procession to mark the Shi'ite Ashura ceremony, in Beirut, Lebanon September 10, 2019. REUTERS/Aziz Taher/ BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hezbollah’s leader said on Tuesday his ...
A vehicle of United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) rides on a road along the border between Lebanon and Israel in the southern Lebanese town of Ramyeh in the Bint Jbeil District on Sept. 9, 2019. - (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP/Getty Images)/ Foreign correspondent focusing on French and ...
Spanish U.N peacekeepers patrol the Lebanese side of the Lebanese-Israeli border in the southern village of Kfar Kila, Lebanon, Monday, Aug. 26, 2019. Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said Monday that Israel's air force attacked a Palestinian base in the country's east near the border ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Warplanes have struck positions of Iran-backed militias near Syria's border with Iraq, activists say. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, said at least 18 Iranian and pro-Iranian fighters were killed. It ...
BEIRUT — Syrian opposition activists say unknown warplanes have targeted an arms depot belonging to Iranian-backed militias in the eastern Syrian town of Boukamal, near the Iraqi border. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the airstrikes began late Sunday and continued ...
BEIRUT — The militant Hezbollah group says it has shot down an Israeli drone over southern Lebanon shortly after it crossed from Israel. The group said in a statement that the militants shot down the drone Monday with “suitable weapons” over the village of Ramieh and that the drone is now with ...
A former official in the powerful Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah was found dead in his flat in a Beirut neighborhood, the state-run Lebanese news agency said on Sunday. Security forces immediately opened an investigation and were awaiting the arrival of a forensic doctor to determine ...
BEIRUT, Sept 8 (Reuters) - A former official in the powerful Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah was found dead in his flat in a Beirut neighborhood, the state-run Lebanese news agency said on Sunday. Security forces immediately opened an investigation and were awaiting the arrival of a ...
BEIRUT, Sept 8 (Reuters) - A former official in the powerful Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah was found dead in his flat in a Beirut neighborhood, the state-run Lebanese news agency said on Sunday. Security forces immediately opened an investigation and were awaiting the arrival of a ...
37AM [Updated: Mon Sep 9, 2019 10:41AM ]/ Israel has claimed a drone attack on Iraqi forces and members of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah near Syria's border with Iraq. The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said the attack took place in the early hours of Monday, ...
04AM [Updated: Mon Sep 9, 2019 04:13AM ]/ The Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah has shot down an Israeli military drone outside the southern town of Ramyah. Hezbollah said its air defense forces shot down the aircraft early Monday as it crossed the border between Lebanon and the occupied ...
53PM [Updated: Sun Sep 8, 2019 09:54PM ]/ A picture taken from the southern Lebanese village of Meiss al-Jabal on December 16, 2018, shows the flag of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah hoisted along the border of Lebanon and the occupied territories. (Photo by AFP)/ A former official in ...
backed body has warned that more than half a million people across Gaza are facing "catastrophic" conditions characterised by "starvation, destitution and death"/ Residents of the Gaza Strip have described to the BBC the effects of severe hunger on their bodies, after a UN-backed report Reem ...
Gaza City and its surrounding area is now experiencing famine, a UN-backed body of food security experts has confirmed. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), which is used by governments and international bodies to identify food insecurity and malnutrition levels around the ...
Israel's military says it has warned medical officials and international organisations to prepare for the planned evacuation of Gaza City's one million residents ahead of an offensive to occupy it. The officials were told that "adjustments" were being made to hospitals in southern Gaza to ...
The UK is among 27 countries backing a statement calling for Israel to allow immediate independent foreign media access to Gaza. France, Germany, Australia, and Japan have also signed - an intergovernmental group which advocates for the rights and protection of journalists globally. The ...
Pope Leo XIV is preparing to travel to Lebanon later this year, in what could be his first journey abroad since being elected head of the Catholic Church in May. Archbishop Paul Sayah, deputy to Lebanon's highest-ranking Catholic leader, told the BBC the Vatican was "studying" the trip but that ...
The Israeli military says it has begun the "preliminary actions" of a planned ground offensive to capture and occupy all of Gaza City and already has a hold on its outskirts. A military spokesman said troops were already operating in the Zeitoun and Jabalia areas to lay the groundwork for the ...
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced the plans for 3,400 homes in the E1 area last week/ Israel has given final approval for a controversial settlement project that would effectively cut off the occupied West Bank from East Jerusalem and divide the territory in two. Construction ...
Netanyahu said Anthony Albanese would be remembered as a 'weak politician'/ Israel's prime minister has accused his Australian counterpart of having "betrayed Israel" and "abandoned" Australia's Jewish community, after days of growing strain between the two countries. Benjamin Netanyahu said on ...
Hostages' families and their supporters want the Israeli government to agree a deal to end the war and bring them all home/ Arab mediators are awaiting a formal response from Israel after Hamas said it had accepted a new proposal for a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal. The plan was ...
Thousands of Palestinians have been fleeing from intensifying Israeli strikes in parts of Gaza City in recent days/ Hamas has agreed to the latest proposal from regional mediators for a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal with Israel, a source in the Palestinian armed group has told the BBC. ...